Example Sentences

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While government bond yields have been marching higher throughout March and April, stocks have been shrugging off tightening fears and rising rapidly.

From Reuters • Apr. 8, 2022

Women have been shrugging off the straitjacket of the power suit for awhile now.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2019

They have been shrugging that the data is "noisy", that there are flaws in the way the data is calculated.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2013

Throughout the Midwest, consumers have been shrugging off the downturn in stocks and taking out home-equity loans to finance remodeling, or a new car or a European vacation.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he might as well have been shrugging over what he had seen.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park